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[Talvieno]

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My attempt at a feather tree. I didn't spend long on it, it's far from perfect, and it could use being tweaked... A lot. Also, as to scale, I'm willing to bet it's huge compared to everything already in Fortress Overseer. And... the polygon count is a bit higher than I wanted it to be... Like I said, I'm used to working with higher-poly models. But, I thought I'd upload a pic and see what you think.

[ashton1993]

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My attempt at a feather tree. I didn't spend long on it, it's far from perfect, and it could use being tweaked... A lot. Also, as to scale, I'm willing to bet it's huge compared to everything already in Fortress Overseer. And... the polygon count is a bit higher than I wanted it to be... Like I said, I'm used to working with higher-poly models. But, I thought I'd upload a pic and see what you think.

I reckon you could probably strip away ~half the leaves maybe? That might let you get some more detail on each each feather

[Talvieno]

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My attempt at a feather tree. I didn't spend long on it, it's far from perfect, and it could use being tweaked... A lot. Also, as to scale, I'm willing to bet it's huge compared to everything already in Fortress Overseer. And... the polygon count is a bit higher than I wanted it to be... Like I said, I'm used to working with higher-poly models. But, I thought I'd upload a pic and see what you think.

I reckon you could probably strip away ~half the leaves maybe? That might let you get some more detail on each each feather

Yes, probably so. I was just going for the general shape, really - a sort of poofiness at the end of a stick-trunk. That's what I've always thought of them as.

edit: I also didn't know if Ogre supported texture transparency - if it does, it would be a lot easier to make it look more detailed without requiring more polygons, and you'd get to keep the poofy-top shape.

[Rose]

ogre does indeed support texture transparency, and you can see it in use in the last screenshot showing trees.

[Talvieno]

Yes, I was just thinking that. However... I'm no artist. I have the feeling someone else would need to create the textures - I don't really have anything good for creating those. I could attempt, but it would look like garbage.

[thewonderidiot]

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My attempt at a feather tree. I didn't spend long on it, it's far from perfect, and it could use being tweaked... A lot. Also, as to scale, I'm willing to bet it's huge compared to everything already in Fortress Overseer. And... the polygon count is a bit higher than I wanted it to be... Like I said, I'm used to working with higher-poly models. But, I thought I'd upload a pic and see what you think.

I like it! Nice and feathery looking 

Yeah, all of the models that I have are leaves and branches drawn on a bunch of intersecting planes, to keep polygon counts down around 100. I'm in the same boat as you though -- if I had to draw a texture for it, things would... not go well.

Incidentally, here's a picture of one of the new trees and one of the new shrubs in action:


There's no rhyme or reason behind the scale of the models, so I'm going through and assigning them proper min and max scales one at a time (which is what this is a screenshot of). Conversion's all done, and once the scale stuff is done it'll be onto preparation for release.

[Rushmik]

Very very very cool.

Cannot wait to use this.

[thewonderidiot]

Cannot wait to use this.

SOON.

[Aristarhys]

I try to launch Fortress Overseer with actual DF 0.34.04 and get error about 'can't connect DF' where get right memory.xml?
And in console get parsing error of SkyX.material - how to fix that?
Where comes new version of FO? Screens above look promising.

P.S. it seems like FO is only still alive 3d visualizer?

[Talvieno]

I try to launch Fortress Overseer with actual DF 0.34.04 and get error about 'can't connect DF' where get right memory.xml?
And in console get parsing error of SkyX.material - how to fix that?
Where comes new version of FO? Screens above look promising.

P.S. it seems like FO is only still alive 3d visualizer?

The current version of Fortress Overseer isn't compatible with DF2012, unfortunately. It won't be long until the next version is released, though.

thewonderidiot - that looks awesome. My feather tree very obviously wouldn't match well with any of that - I really should've looked at the plant models you were using, lol
It looks like you're making rapid progress.

[thewonderidiot]

thewonderidiot - that looks awesome. My feather tree very obviously wouldn't match well with any of that - I really should've looked at the plant models you were using, lol
It looks like you're making rapid progress.

Not all of these models will stay, necessarily, since they're just generic "trees" and not "Oaks" and "Maples", which is what I want in the end. So don't worry if it doesn't quite fit in for now. 

Unfortunately, last night around midnight progress ground to a halt. It looks like there's been some form of corruption in our repository, and I'm not sure to what extent there is yet. As far as I can tell, it's just the texture atlas, but it's messed up all the way throughout our revision history, so I won't be able to make a replace tonight as planned. I'm hoping that the clone I have at work is old enough to not have been affected, but I won't find out until tomorrow.  If, when I examine the revision history at work tomorrow, discrepancies show up... I guess I'll have to make a new repository or something. Not sure yet. Anyways, sorry about the delay, again. Hopefully I can get this all figured out.

EDIT: Looks like sexymustard messed it up a week or so ago. I'll have to wait for him to be able to fix it, though.

DOUBLE EDIT: Got it all sorted out. All of the planned features for release are done, so now I'm cleaning up, removing any hardcoded numbers, and pulling everything out to a config file.

[Icefire2314]

When do you think it will be 2012 compatible? I haven't used overseer, and it looks really cool

[thewonderidiot]

When do you think it will be 2012 compatible? I haven't used overseer, and it looks really cool

Thanks! It already is DF2012-compatible, I'm just keeping it to myself! 

I fixed the last two known bugs that I intended to fix before release tonight. I still want to play with lighting a bit, and I still need to build the config file. Plus a quick pass over everything to try to optimize it a bit. Give it a few days... I'd say Saturday at the absolute latest.



This screenshot shows tonight's two fixes -- wood is displaying on constructions properly, and trees are only being placed in towns were they actually belong (DF's bug, not mine!)

[Graebeard]

You, sir, have got me excited.

[ashton1993]

*Ashton's eye twitches occasionally as he awaits the release of the 3d visualizer everyone's been waiting for* hehe, you almost there now?